Zen Buddhists often talk about something which may sound counter-intuitive, but is actually most profound: “The mind is a prison.” According to this concept, all of us can become consumed by our thoughts, preoccupied by them to the point where we become hijacked, ceasing to pay attention to real events and stimuli from the outside physical environment. The real world becomes another version of the fake reality that exists in our head, as opposed to the one and only reality: where real people live and die, and real events occur. Events which, had we been awake, we could have personally influenced.
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As this civilization walks through the desert towards its death, it may feel on multiple occasions that its judgement is failing, and that it should turn back, but the mirages projected out into the distance by the farm will be reassuring. As long as people are asleep and busy working the jobs which feed the very system responsible for our predicament, we are rapidly heading for an apocalyptic catastrophe which will end civilization, life, and the farm itself. The global collapse of industrial civilization will continue to be managed very effectively by half-truths, green hopium, and invented villains. What is likely to remain completely out of control, and out of the news, is the climate, ecological apocalypse and any future for which we may have hoped.
Link to | The Dream from which Humanity Is Unable to Awaken.